MO3525 Global Intellectual History: Theories and Methodologies

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 9

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Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Dr M Banerjee

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Module Staff

Dr Milinda Banerjee

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Module description

In recent years, historians have been increasingly studying the globalization of ideas and arguments. How did ideas like 'democracy', 'nationalism', 'sovereignty', 'law', or 'rights' become key concepts across the world? Should we think about this in terms of 'diffusion' from Europe to the rest of the world? Or should we place equal emphasis on the agency of non-European actors and intellectual traditions? How can we understand these historical processes through lenses of race/colonialism, class, and gender? To explore these issues, this course initiates students into basic theoretical frameworks and methodological debates about the emerging field of global intellectual history, relevant especially to understanding modern intellectual transformations. It encourages students to locate ideas in their historical contexts, to interrogate their transborder circulations, and to explore the implications of all this for understanding present ways of thinking about self, society, and politics.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS 60 CREDITS FROM {MO1007, MO1008, MO2008, HI2001, MH2002}

Assessment pattern

100% Coursework

Re-assessment

Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 x 2 hour seminar and 1 office hour

Scheduled learning hours

22

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

278

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.